Quotes About Flight

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The word 'escape' was suggestive

Todo pájaro que aprenda a organizarse una buena vida sin necesidad de usar sus alas pronto renunciará al privilegio del vuelo y permanecerá por siempre en tierra. Algo parecido pasa con los seres humanos. Si se les procura con regularidad y abundancia el pan tres veces al día, muchos de ellos se contentarán con vivir de pan únicamente o, al menos, de pan y circo únicamente.

Free as a bird', we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of unrestricted movement in all three dimensions. But, alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce the privilege of flight and remain forever grounded.

About aviaries: You fill it up, as many as you can. Then one day when something good happens to you, you throw it open and watch them fly away.

You fill it [an aviary] up, with as many as you can. Then one day when something good happens to you, you throw it open and watch them fly away.

Así vio, por último, de improviso, el cielo sobre el palacio mancharse con el vuelo de cientos de pájaros, como expulsados fuera de la tierra, pájaros de todo tipo, estupefactos, huir por todas partes, enloquecidos, cantando y gritando, pirotécnica explosión de alas y nube de colores disparada en la luz, y de sonidos, asustados, música en fuga, volando en el cielo.

Cosí vide, alla fine, all'improvviso, il cielo sopra il palazzo macchiarsi del volo di centinaia d'uccelli, come esplosi via dalla terra, uccelli d'ogni tipo, stupefatti, fuggire ovunque, impazziti, cantando e gridando, pirotecnica esplosione di ali, e nube di colori sparata nella luce, e di suoni, impauriti, musica in fuga, nel cielo a volare. Hervé Joncour sorrise. Seta

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Pigeon, your wings are no good.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

Yeah, well my walking body abandoned me and flew south

There is an art to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There is an art to flying ... or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 flight to Oslo?

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles in the 2004 Nimitz Encounter.

translated into English as Icarus Fallen, she suggested that the condition of modern European man was the condition that Icarus would have been in had he survived the fall.

Private flights back home, no stop-over.

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

Dreams give your soul wings. And images from dreams are the exquisite patterns on the wings. Hold your dream as you would hold a butterfly -- in your open, quiet palms. Make sure none of the delicate wing dust brushes off onto clumsy hands. Pinning the dream down with interpretation will tear the wings off the butterfly and kill it. .... Hold your dream images gently enough so that they still can fly.

It was in Central Park near the lake and I watched a weeping willow turn into a giant rooster and fly off. No tree remained. It glided beautifully into the sky, a big blue barnyard. My mind went with it, something all you bald head generals and wheelchair senators could never imagine.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.